The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 15, 1929, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week FINAL CITY EDITION Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW ~ Price 3 In New York, by mail, $8.00 per yenr. by ma 5.00 per year. Cents an a ee YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1929 Vol. VL, No. 85 SUPPORT COMMUNIST PARTY-DAILY WORKER $50,000 EMERGENCY CAMPAIGN—STRENGTHEN LABOR’S FRONT - Hearing Continued Tuesday; 11 Held Without Bail; 2 Released; Others, $2,000 Bail; 200 Strikers Come from Gastonia to Protect from Lynchers Svery Communist a DAWES ARRIVAL ‘Gastonia swine Tx REACTION 0. KS INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE FIGHTS Workers aiding in the tag days called by the New York Section | Gere ee cs MEXICO CHURCH LEADERS’ LIVES; APPEALS FOR FUNDS Peiaiew 44: Bicengthen. Fight. Agsinst Mur.| While Strikebreaker Is] |** Seton s follows: Counterrevolutionary| Lae derers of Working Class Until July 21st | [u72eBoston Ra; Lower Brons,|| "A nti Gow't, Work Day’s Pay in Drive to INLONDONMAKES Gress Newvors NEW PACT WITH IN CHARLOTTE COURT TO SAVE STRIKE Meet Pressing Demands ROMAN HOLIDAY 3! tiia ihe Feted India Rebels [Brom Soar 20 nn Body Calls Halt on Are Rallroaded jn Hat ii st! Gropatie Daily Worker More Essential Now Than Ever Before in the History of Working Class |Ask for Jury; Refused pe |Face Execution Unless | z Legislature |Mass Meetings and Tag Days in New York; Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit we imposed upon our Party as the revolutionary vanguard of the working class in this period. The degree of success attained by our Party in this situation will be determined by the ability f the entire Party membership and our sympathizers to re- aieiis eacecially | Aihaeis Headonan spond quickly to the new situation. and Ramsay MacDonald, a group of | Our Party is recognized by hundreds and thousands of workers, as;Indian trade unionists were being | © well as by the bourgeoisie, as the leader of all the recent class struggles | rushed to their death by the British! n this country. For our Party this present period marks a definite | imperialist tools in Meerut, India. NATURE OF FAKE | | urn towards the development of a mass Communist Party. In our ef-| The trial of these trade union- ith the fiercest resistance of the capitalist class and their henchmen, | ners were even refused the formal-| LONDON, June 14.—A real Ro- Bath Beach, 48 Bay man holiday is taking place here. While strikebreaker Dawes was | being toted by the British labor fak- | |new reactionary alliance between the Gil government and®* the =, | catholic church has received the en- |dorsement of the official counter- (Special to the Daily Worker.) CHARLOTTE, N. C.,.June 14.—Judge W. F. Harding, hearing habeas cory Seaudod The Nerena Lsacie oy ings ont 19 of those arrested in Gastonia after the police shot up the strikers t [Religious Defense, which’ has sper and got their chief killed in the process, held 11 for a continuation of the h r sored and : ided the armed religious | Without bail, held six for continuation on $2,000 bail each, and released t {uprisings thruout Mexico, has’ is-| The International Labor Defense will apply for habeas corpus w |Sued a statement asking all its mem- | prisoners up Tuesday. There are 71 in all. sera aati: eee The two released are Tom Fels and one other, neither of them ? | Those held on charges of “secret assault with a deadly weapon” and HE working class of the United States ts entering upon a World Protest | Cee mal age oir vee | Opposes Betrayal Organize Working Class to Save 71 Victims of Bosses period of fierce class conflicts. The most difficult tasks (isis one) | |48rd St.; Coney Island, 2901 Mer- | wextco CITY, June 14.—The —————— | Portes The main station at the Work. ers Center, 28 Union Square, will be open Saturday and Sunday un- til 12 p. m. to take settlements. ~ leaders in the admitted t orts to fulfill our tasks as the vanguard of the working class, we meet | ists opened Wednesday and the pri ‘ é This action by the official coun-| perms ga Laine: a i “seat: : 1 labor bureaucracy. ity of a jury. As soon as they were CLOAK ST PPAG |ter-revolution reveals the shameless- | ——° Bertha Crawford, Harry ! ua, For the first time in the history of our Party a number of our Party | brought into dock they shouted, ly reactionary face of the new al- Clarence Miller, E Sau ders Miller, Ca Drew, and J. R. Pittman. The following are held on charges of murder and without bail: Fred Beal, embers stand today in the shadow of the electric chair because, in ful-| Down. with Eakin pa wee |liance. So confident are the reac- iling the duty of the Party to the working class, they invaded the e Siine eit = ue a‘ eae jtionary forces of their triumph that rewly industrialized South for the purpose of leading the exploited |® vicime Stack ov the eae oe jmany expect the churches to open wage workers in the struggle against low wages, miserable working | or “ee eee CER Gh aaa onditions, the terrific speed-up and all the effects of rationalization. |@lleged tyranny of the Communist — The Gastonia trial will be an event of world-wide significance for the| Party of the U. S. S. R. over the ine Mill Press Rages When Lyne |S MA Talk Exposed by Daily Worker |this Sunday instead of June 29 as ‘at first reported. Conferences Continue. - | Vera Bush, K, ‘Fur Strike Committee | O. Byers, Wm. Me- working class. Whether these comrades are to be burned to death in| Masses. ine (eracieaantly ci | Meanwhile the polite conferences’ GEMARD SHOWS | The Daily Worker's poliey of ex-/ Ginnis, Louis McLaughlin, Sophie he electric chair depends primarily upon the ability of our Party to |Pouneed that the Communist phil Meets Monday \between President Portes Gil and| posing the lynching tacties of the|Melvin, K. Y. Hendricks, Russel “nobilize the working class in defense of the elementary right to organize | he unorganized workers. | As a section of the Communist International, face to face with the uthless and murderous imperialist power of the United States, we must | vecognize that these local struggles and the savage resistance that they | evoke*from-the enemy class, are part and pareél 6f the struggle of the working class against the danger of another imperialist war. connection we must also recognize the tremendous importance of mob- lization of the masses for the International Red Day against imperialist war on August first. An inseparable part of our mass work is the onergetic drive to insure a successful TUEL convention that will lay the vasis for the organization of a revolutionary trade union center in the United States, that will coordinate the every-day struggles of the work- ing class in the present period. Another important task is the organiza- ion of nation-wide celebrations on the tenth anniversary of the founding! * the Communist Party in the United States. Inseparable from all our tasks is the enlightenment campaign among our Party membership for the line of the Communist International, and religious, anti-family, in fact anti-| everything that was decent. |Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, The leaders of the International |papal emissary, and Bishop Pascual Conviction of these men Is prac- Ladies Garment Workers Union, the | Diaz, of Tabasco, are continuing tho | GERMAN PARTY tically inevitable. The charges are that the accused’ are working for The prosecutor characterized the|ttade. The chief actors in this shab-|ence with Portes Gil an! emerged | |Communist International as a Rus- | by performance are the bosses and with their faces wreathed in smiles. | |sian Government institution with |their agents in the scab union. “outposts.” The British Communist Party, he declared, was such an out- post, and said that the accused were trying, to form such an outpost in India. The prosecutor tried to rouse a nationalist fervor against the prisoners by quoting garbled attacks | on the National Congress leaders jcompany union of the cloak manu-|the new religious pact has already facturers are continuing their sor-|been informally concluded. Last | the overthrow of the British mon-|4id comedy in connection with the| night the two distinguished dope In this} archy and its traitorous ministries, |threatened fake “stoppage” in the| peddlers held their second confer- |A third conference is scheduled to | A grand pretense is being made take place sometime today. |that each day the relations between| It is believed that the confer- jthe “union” officials and the bosses | ences now are merely working out [become more and more “strained” the details of the pact which was and that a strike will be the final | prepared by maiy months of secret Cae |negotiations during which time the All Pre-arranged. | Mexican masses have been kept ig- In an official statement issued norant of the plans for selling out ~ TASKS AT MEET |World Conflicts Grow; Must Fight “Rights” (Wireless by Inprecorr) BERLIN, June 14.—Speaking as |the representative of the Commu- nist International at the Convention of the Communist Party of Ger- jmill owners’ press of the south, par- jticularly the Gastonia Gazette’s |slightly camouflaged incitement to murder the strikers held in jail, has so far got under the skin of that {paper that in its issue of June 11 it devoted several columns to abuse lof the Daily Worker. The Gastonia Gazette of June 11 quotes liberally from the Daily Worker report of the situation in Gastonia, includes under a caption the statement of the Daily Worker, |The mill owners’ press is shrieking for the lynching of the prisoners held in jail,” and comments: “That gives an idea of what sort of yellow journalism is backing these Commu- | Knight, Geo. Carter, and Joe Har- rison. In addition, Amy Shechter is held without bail on a charge of “Assault with intent to commit murder,” | A total of 58 are being held on the secondary charge and the $2,000 bail will apply to. all of them. Double Charges, Under the amended complaints Melvin, Beal, Bush, McLaughlin, | Carter, Hendricks, Byers, Miller and | six others are charged with both murder and assault with intent to | kill. The court room gave a clear pic- |ture of the class forces whose clash {in Gastonia has produced this his- 1 relentless struggle against the right wing and conciliatory tendencies | Nehru, Bosem, and Ghandi. last night by the Joint Board of the|one of the most significant achieve-|manv> semard dealt with the sig-/nist leaders and agitators here in| toric ease. ‘Three hundred » mill 1s a guarantee that our Party will be able to respond correctly to the| He repeated the ancient slander |Needle Trades Industrial Union, the|ment of the Mexic-~ revolution, feeble a ciie SGamincaaeicn ane oe workers jammed the room, and asks before it. While face to face with tremendous class struggles, our | that the Soviet political police mur-|most recent maneuvers are analyzed. U. 8. Gives Orders. lhasiy May Dee ercaee| cual peed Dodges the Evidence. others crowded the corridors. Two arty and the Daily Worker find themselves in a serious financial crisis. Chis condition can and must be instantly overcome. In order to meet the immediate situation, the Central Committee | nas decided to launch a Communist Party-Daily Worker $50,000 Emer- gency Campaign to start at once (June 15th) and continue until July 21st. | In this campaign every Party member will be assessed one day’s pay. | dered two and one-half million peo- ple. The accused wired MacDonald de- |manding the transfer of the case to|have ‘broken off’ relations with the High Court so that they could ob- tain a jury trial. They demanded also that the British “labor” gov- The statement follows: “It is a surprise to nobody that the agents of the company union It is a ~ ell-known fact that the alliance has been made at the wish of the U. S. for the purpose of uniting all reactionary forces for |the greater subjection of the coun- try to Amer’ :n “perialism. Am- (Continued on Page Two) Industrial Council. Everyone knew long ago that the only purpose of |these staged conferences was to con- |social fascism and dealt with the | struggle against opportunism and the right wingers. “The fundamental world contradic- tion is the inevitable antagonism be- tween the capitalist countries and will be issued and furnished to all units. The money collected must be|preaker Hell ’n Maria Dawes has | But the Gastonia Gazette takes care not to repeat the extracts from its own pages, published in the Daily, and on which the charge of incitement to lynching was made by the Daily Worker. In its issue of June 11, evidently the first printed hundred of these came in from Gas- tonia. They were strikers who had heard of attempts on the part of the mill bosses to raise a lynch mob at |Charlotte or on the way to or from Charlotte, and they came in to pro- tect their strike leader This is the first assessment of this nature the Party membership |ernment does not repeat the Cawn-|ceal the treacherous plan to deceive the Soviet Union,” he said. “The|sfter the Gazette discovered that its| In front of the workers were the 1as had since 1924. The money thus collected will go directly to the | pore conspiracy case for which they|the cloakmakers into a fake stop- Eres conciliators fail to observe that this Jynching talk was being reported to |Prisoners, some of them like Me- Party. ‘In this respect it is different than the methods of raising money | were responsible in 1924, page. jantagonism is the chief antagonism|the workers of the world, there is|Ginnis with clothes still caked with vy running affairs, large part of the proceeds of which go into the! MacDonald, fully occupied with) “The agents of the clique tell wre WORKERS DIE |in the present ‘third period’ and that, noticeable softening down of this | blood from injuries inflicted by the nands of capitalists who own the halls. A special one day’s pay stamp| dining and celebrating the strike-|tale that they are forced to call a jthis antagonism will intensify ac-| cide of its editorial comment and its|mill owners’ thugs, and Harrison, sent direct to the National Office. The Party members who are un- 2mployed will, of course, not be required to pay. The unit Executive Committees will be responsible for ascertaining the facts regarding whether members are employed or not. Every member should at once sive a day’s pay to his or her unit organizer. In addition to this as- sessment we must conduct campaigns in the factories and work shops | ind make collections in all places where workers are employed, and at vienics, outings and affairs of all kinds, Every Party member will realize the importance of this Communist Party-Daily Worker $50,000 Emergency Campaign. We must tremen- lonsly intensify the activities of our Party, increase our membership and trengthen and improve the Daily Worker so that it will become a mass | so far failed to issue any statement | on the legal murders being carried| through in Meerut. | ON BAKERS BY strike because the bosses are insist- | ing on the right of the ten per cent discharge. It is well known, how- ever, that for the past two and half years, since the self-same clique} made the pogrom on the union, this | clique has given the bosses a free IN DOCK BLAST, |t | Company Allowed Oil | jcording to the achievements of the| ‘2 |Soviet Union, the development of|, provocative cartoon, socialist constructive work and the | jrise of the revolutionary wave in |the striker who was shot, with one }arm in a sling and a partly healed wound on the other. Boss Has 14 Lawyers. Gathered around a long table to |the right were the fourteen law- |yers of the prosecution, including ke news articles. Instead, it runs apparently |under the opinion that such a thing |cannot be exposed as easily. | | Lynch Justice. “Laborites” Also Imperialist. | ‘The drawing is on the front page “The change of government in/of the Gazette for Tuesday, June 11, he capitalist countries. sired, as many as they desired, and ; When they desired. | Records Are Known. | “The I. L. G. W. agents want | to give the impression that they Three workers were killed’and 18 tered one end of the Robins Dry- dock, at the foot of Dwight St.. to Accumulate |Great Britain means no diminution jof the imperialist war lapai ; ‘i | ” linjured in an explosion which shat- | @gainst the Soviet Union. Hender-j Only for a Moment. (Continued on Page Two) jis done by one Ben E. Abernathy, This is a (Continued on Page Two) Clyde Hooey, looking like Oscar danger |and is entitled: “Justice Weeps But | Wilde and considered the sharpest lawyer in the state; and Major Bul- j winkle, who looks like a well bred bull frog, and had a gun poking out organ giving leadership from day to day to the working class in these RIGHT WINGERS must calb a strike against the de- | Brooklyn, yesterday, Z elite wo ere a ee struggles. mands of the bosses for a 42-hour! ‘The three workers who were 127 Fi d St k G t 60 D tapes as ae ‘ The Central Committee especially appeals to the masses of sympa- week, at a time when all the work- \hilled are: | 00 11 ers e a ay pects) Diesecutet and ae “\izers to recognize the Communist Party as the ifdispensable leading pre in the class struggle in America. More than ever is the Daily orker needed. Every militant worker, who has been through strikes in the past few years has come to recognize the role played by the Militants Had Fought Machine at Meeting | (Continued on Page Five) FREIHEIT OUTING man St., of the paint gang. Thomas Kennedy, forty, 73 Dike- | Christopher Kelly, thirty-five, 351 | Term tor Defying Injunction Jenckes attorney. Attorneys Man- gum and Carpenter did most of the talking for the prosecution. The |company’s battery of legal lights f ore Baye 5th St. ] made a miserable showing. In the Daily Worker. One of the reasons for the financial difficulties of the i ss , | first i 5 i Fi C F c ail 5 . . . . \first place, they have no case, even Daily Worker is the fact that hundreds of thousands of copies have been| The gangster outfit which rules |g eatrick Burns, twenty-eight, 1915 | Cafeteria Workers Will Continue Its Fight & i listributed free to striking miners, shoe workers, textile workers, needle |°ver Local 500 of the Bakers made Haring St. SINE from a legal standpoint. In the srades workers, etc. The Daily Worker is the only daily paper in the English language that waged a relentless, uncompromising revolutionary struggle against the murderers of Sacco and Vanzetti. It is the only English daily that the masses can depend upon in the fight against those who are today preparing new butcheries of the leaders of the warking class. We have the added expense of fighting against the libel suit of Hillquit, for exposing his role in the labor movement. To be de- " yrived of the Daily Worker in this period of the intensified class struggle would be nothing short of a calamity for the entire working class of the United States. Our Party sympathizers can greatly aid this cam- paign by collecting funds wherever possible and send them directly to the National Office of the Party. Make it possible to wage a counter offensive against capitalist mur- jerers of the working class! Support your paper—support the Daily Worker! Support the Party of your class! Every Party member a day’s pay! Help to carry out the line of the Communist International Address hy making possible the carrying out of the practical tasks! a vicious, bloody attack against the progressive members at a meeting held yesterday afternoon in Web- ster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave. The meeting was called to take up the question of general elections and the pogrom began when pro- gressives resisted the attempt of the administration gangsters to foist one of their own “boys” as chairman | upon the meeting. The machine gang apparently came well prepared for their mur- derous assaults, The attack came when nearly a dozen members were (Continued on Page Five) | BALTIMORE SEAMEN TO MEET. BALTIMORE, Md., June 14.—A mass meeting of marine workers will be held atthe International | These workers had been blown through a hole about 15 feet square in the side of the drydock. They were burned almost to a crisp and TO START TODAY Thousands to Meet at Battery at 2 p. m. | Officials of the drydock company attempted to cover up their culpa- Thousands of militant workers are expected to participate in the Freiheit Excursion this afternoon at 2 p.m. sharp. Two spacious steamers, the Clare- the Atlantic. Arrangements have been made It will be a day of great merriment. bility for the blast, refusing to give cut any information about the ex- jplosion, It was stated that oil, escaping with the water drained | | from the tanker Gulfpenn of the Drydock Co. allowed jo its arrival at the drydock to ac- !cumulate, thus bringing about the | for chorus singing, ball games, etc, | disaster. The accumulation of the Joil made a disaster very possible, Despite Edicts Twenty-seven cafeteria strikers were sentenced yesterday to 60 days jeach in the workhouse for violation of the injunction forbidding them to picket, by Justices Kernochan, Solomon and Kelly in Special Ses- sions, Part 1. Two of these strikers | were women with children dependent |mont and Onteora will leave Pier Gulf Refining Co., had been ignited | upon them. All of the strikers chose | A, Battery Park and will carry the in some way. joyous ‘multitude to one of the most | The Robins ‘picturesque spots on the shores of | the oil drained from the’ Gulfpenn \the 60 day sentence rather than pay a fine of $100. One hundred others, convicted of the same charge of de- fying the injunction, are still await- ing sentence. They will be ‘sen- tenced today. In imposing sentence, of Boss Courts The injunction which the strikers violated was granted to the Wil-low Cafeterias, Inc., and to the United Restaurant Owners Association by Supreme Court Judge Henry Sher- second place, they have not had time yet to complete the frame-up on which they base their hopes of electrocuting and jailing the work-_ er defendants, Magnum Incites. As the hearing progressed and the controversy between Defense man. It forbids all strike activities, Attorney Jimison and the prosecu- including not only peaceful picket-|tion grew heated, the legal boquet ing but the advertising of the fact | gathered by Manville-Jenckes began that there is a strike and appealing to wilt. It wilted still more after to the public not to patronize places, Magnum tried to stage a demonstra- struck. It is the most sweeping and| tion against the defendants which drastic injunction ever granted in flivvered. the history of labor disputes in New Mass Meetings On, York. In answer to the International In protesting against these exces-| Labor Defense's call for nation-wide sive sentences, Jacques Buitenkant,| demonstrations and tag days to lawyer for the defense, stated that|raise money for the Gastonia de- these sentences will only serve to|fense, the New York workers are { CENTRAL COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY OF Seamen’s Club, 1710 Thames St,| The Freiheit excursions are Jook-|since, hot FiMlels ern ered yi aaticeKemoelian, presiding jus-|harden the determination of the rallying for a huge collection drive i THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Baltimore, Sunday at 8 p. m. Ad- | ed forward to impatiently, since they in esata tice, announced that “an example|Stikers to fight to a finish, It will (Continued on Page Two) * * * mission is free. George Mink, na-| provide an unforgettable day of joy further convince them that the Send ALL FUNDS, aside from the day’s pay, direct to he Daily Worker, 26 Union Square, New York City. tional secretary of the Marine Work- ers’ League, will speak on “organ- ization.” at the moderate price of—in ad- vance, $1.25. At the pier, $1.50. Children, 75 cents. After every revolution marking a progressive phase in the class strug- ule, the purely repressive character of ‘the State power stands out in bolder and bolder rellef—Marx. must be made of these strikers who refused to stop picketing when or- dered to do so by the court.” courts are instruments of the em- ployers in the battles between labor (Continued on Page Five) Build shop committees and draw the more militant members into | the Communist Party. iN AG DAYS TO DEFEND THE GASTONIA PRISONERS TODAY, TOMORROW; STATIONS OPEN ALL DAY p